The pesticide DBCP manufactured by Dow Chemical Company and used by Dole Food Company is alleged to have made Nicaragua banana workers sterile 30 years ago. After years of a legal wrangling, a case is going to trial in L.A. this summer. Two of the people with an interest in the outcome are Primitivo Presentacion Perez, who worked for 25 years at a banana plantation, and Leticia Vidabre, his ailing former co-worker. She died of kidney failure less than a month after this photo was taken.

The pesticide DBCP manufactured by Dow Chemical Company and used by Dole Food Company is alleged to have made Nicaragua banana workers sterile 30 years ago. After years of a legal wrangling, a case is going to trial in L.A. this summer. Two of the people with an interest in the outcome are Primitivo Presentacion Perez, who worked for 25 years at a banana plantation, and Leticia Vidabre, his ailing former co-worker. She died of kidney failure less than a month after this photo was taken.